Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mozambique and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Royal Trux to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Radio Birdman. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eric Copeland,
Rosa Yemen,
Wasted Youth,
John Lydon,
The Modern Lovers,
Nas,
Todd Rundgren,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Boredoms,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eurythmics,
Crime,
Donny Hathaway,
Jerry's Kids,
The Doors,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Sonics,
MC5,
Mr. Review,
Faraquet,
Joyce Sims,
The Residents,
Banda Bassotti,
This Heat,
Reuben Wilson,
Alison Limerick,
Robert Görl,
Bill Wells,
Funkadelic,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Saints,
The Misunderstood,
Joey Negro,
Tubeway Army,
The Slackers,
Derrick May,
Eddi Front,
OOIOO,
Livin' Joy,
Crash Course in Science,
Make Up,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lalo Schifrin,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Hill,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Leaves,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dual Sessions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Marc Almond,
Archie Shepp,
The J.B.'s,
A Certain Ratio,
Dave Gahan,
Silicon Teens,
Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies, Flamin' Groovies.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.